WHAT ARE we like that it’s big news in environmental circles this week that the Government is appointing the first Climate Change Advisory Council, asks Victoria White.

I OFTEN repeat to myself a version of the words “that you are breathing now, this moment, alive in time, at the same time as I, and that I can only hold my breath at the thought,” writes Victoria White.

THE Irish people have beaten off an army of bishops carrying croziers by saying ‘Yes’ in the same-sex marriage referendum. For the first time, they have made up their own minds.

It’s critical we turn around as a society and give young adults the respect accorded to adulthood, the respect they deserve, writes Victoria White

I WAS sitting in a theatre the other night when the couple beside me started holding hands. Two men.

A big offender is the Coombe Women’s Hospital. Its energy use has rocketed by 89% since 2009 writes Victoria White

TURN on the radio or pick up a newspaper and you might just notice that there is an inquiry tasked with finding out why this State was nearly destroyed by its banks. It is in this context that I ask the question: why are Bank of Ireland (BOI) and Allied Irish Bank (AIB) running banks in our schools?

Europe can’t build a wall and hide behind it, stuffing itself with riches... and get away with it, writes Victoria White

So, Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio says Hillary Clinton wants to take Americans "back to yesterday"?

WE are meant to be entering a new era by preparing Ireland’s first Early Years Strategy, but we’re telling ourselves porkies writes Victoria White